Dancing Under the Stars is part of Anton Laborde’s “jungles” series, a body of work in which lush, untamed nature becomes a mirror of human interiority. The piece blends figuration and symbolism: the jungle is both a physical space and a mental landscape, a projection of our desires, tensions, and longing for harmony.

In this nocturnal, blue-hued composition, a figure with closed eyes appears to levitate, dancing beneath a star-studded sky. Their supple, fluid body evokes a sense of surrender, freedom, and perhaps even trance. The stylised vegetation, with its exuberant and geometric forms, spills out beyond the frame, dissolving the boundary between reality and imagination. The almost totemic palm trees, the mother-of-pearl moon, and the interplay of textures lend the scene a dreamlike quality.

Here, the artist refers to a childhood memory from Auroville, India—a moment of pure freedom and connection with the world. In this way, the jungle becomes an extension of the inner world, a space of communion between the self and the cosmos.